Is "Pretty Women" from Sweeney Todd a love song?

I think its a tie for me between "A Quiet Thing" from Flora and the Red Menace - its so simple and sweet and perfect - and "All the Wasted Time" from Parade. Its just such an honest and tragic love song. I'm a huge sucker for the tragedy, and what a beautiful melody!

The most romantic song I think is "My Heart Stood Still" (from A Connecticut Yankee) because this describes how I felt when I saw my husband to be for the first time! I guess it was love at first sight.

"If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL by Rodgers and Hammerstein is just a perfect piece of musical theatre writing. If the lighting is clean, the set is evocative, and the actors are true, a transcendent moment awaits... the QUESTION of love, followed by a hazarded diversion, several attempts at denial, ending finally and inevitably with the ANSWER of love... all in the most courageous nine-minute scene, which, instead of swelling to two voices booming in harmony at the top of their ranges, ends with Julie's gentle line, "You're right about their being no wind. The blossoms are just coming down by their selves. Just their time to, I reckon." SMOOCH! That's love at its best!!

The show is dark, but this song is beautiful. I think "A Pineapple" from Cabaret. I don't know, I just think it's delicious and sweet and charming and makes me cry, but it's not like a power-ballad love song. It's just beautiful. Those are the type of love moments I enjoy seeing on stage.

I think this year I would have to say “It Only Takes A Moment” from Hello, Dolly! With this year's revival, I was reminded of how incredible Jerry Herman’s simple melodies are - no one can write like him.

"Where or When" by Rodgers and Hart because I love the idea that: I know you and that we're connected, but I can't tell you what the moment was.

"Not A Day Goes By" by Stephen Sondheim. Not sure if it's a love song per se, but it sure is a song about love lost.... It's just absolutely heartbreaking every time I hear it. And, for my money, Bernadette Peter's version is a bolt of lightning smack through the center of my heart.

My favorite love song is "All I Ask of You," from The Phantom of the Opera. The orchestrations are just so beautiful.

I just love "Somewhere” from West Side Story. Classic.

Easy. My favorite Broadway love song would have to be “Without You” from RENT.

"My Cup Runneth Over" from I DO! I DO!

I would say "She Loves Me from She Loves Me. I just have always been in love with that show and that music and that world. Yeah, one of my faves.

"Say it Somehow" from The Light in the Piazza. The combination of such a beautiful, sweeping melody and the story of two young lovers finding a way to communicate without words is so incredibly romantic I can hardly stand it. It is one my most favourite duets to sing.

What's the one from Merrily...? It started off like a song... "Good Thing Going." It's kind of a sad love song, which I enjoy because sometimes love is sad. Happy Valentine's day!

My favorite love songs are "So Many People," "Saturday Night," "If I Loved You," "All the Things You Are." I love that there is a sense of melancholy in all of them. That there isn't like one clean expression. That it's always both. That there is something lost and something gained and something unsure that builds to a commitment.

My favorite Broadway love song is "Sunrise" from In the Heights. It captures the feeling of new love, with all its uncertainty, and how we are often being pulled in many different directions, by our responsibilities, expectations, and obligations. It's also just a gorgeous song, sung beautifully by the legends Mandy "the Beast" Gonzalez and Christopher Jackson. Swoon!

"Johanna" from Sweeney Todd. I happened to see a concert production in San Francisco with Georger Hearn, Patti Lupone, and Neil Patrick Harris when I was 11 and I've been a fan of the piece ever since.

When I think of classic romantic songs from shows like South Pacific, while they are beautiful, they don't really have much to do with my life. So my idea of Broadway's romantic song is one that moves me with a true sense of what it's like to be in love now, all of the emotions, not just the first blush. Three come to mind. First, for the sad sack in your life there is "Next Best Thing to Love" from A Class Act. An unbelievable song, and Randy Graff kills it. Second, both the original and above all the reprise of "I'll Cover You" from Rent. It's heart wrenching, and gorgeous. Shout out to Jesse Martin -a classier guy you will not find. Finally, I think the most romantic composer we have is William Finn. I count "Sailing", and "I Feel So Much Spring" as all time favorites that make you go fuzzy inside. But my one true choice for most romantic song is "Four Unlikely Lovers" from Falsettoland. Knocks me out every time. Thanks Bill.

I just love "Unexpected Song" from SONG AND DANCE.

"We Kiss in A Shadow" from THE KING AND I.

Since the show wasn't ever officially on Broadway (I don't think) it might not count, but my favorite love song is "Heart an' Hand" from Floyd Collins. It's not about fresh new love, or that rocket-explosion exciting thing. It's a grounded, quiet love and commitment, a vow to be there with and for each other during the most excruciating or terrifying of times. Romance is so much fun, and, this song speaks to me of true, deep, abiding love.

"Who Will Love Me As I Am?" from SIDE SHOW because it describes the perfect unconditional love.

“Worlds Apart” from Big River

I tend to favor "loss songs" such as "What Did I Have That I Don't Have?" and "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" (both Lerner matched at every turn by Lane and Loewe, respectively) over "love songs" . . . however where Love at First Listen is concerned: "The Song is You" (by Kern & Hammerstein, as brilliantly constructed a theme as has ever been composed); "Maria" (Bernstein & Sondheim, and surely no one has ever sung it better than its originator Larry Kert); and "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" by Rodgers and Hart. Or anything else that duo ever wrote together.

I love "What About Love?" from The Color Purple because the lyrics are so true. This is what life is about, our love!

Wow, it is impossible to pick only one but here are my top picks. The lyrics to all these songs are sublime and one could do them as monologues without the music and they stand alone but then you add the music and well.... "When Did I Fall in Love?" from FIORELLO. "Vanilla Ice Cream" From SHE LOVES ME. "Soliloquy" and "If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL, "Maria" and "Somewhere" from WEST SIDE STORY. However, I can't not mention my favorite romantic song ever "Inside your Heart" from Bat Boy". Ah, the things we do for love.

"What About Love?" from THE COLOR PURPLE.

"Loving You" from Passion because love is beautifully obsessive and ruining your life shouldn’t be a one-person job.